# Slotkin's deterrence plan

News · Heat 2.3 / 10 · 4 shows · 43m airtime

On October 14, Senator Elissa Slotkin said Democrats should pursue signature cases against the people who enabled Trump, not just the president, and that she wants young people to think twice before working for his administration. She has since said she means the enablers rather than the president alone. Trump said from the Oval Office that she should be tried for her remarks, and Slotkin answered in an X video. The argument now turns on whether targeting enablers is deterrence or political retaliation.

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## Segments

- [Gutfeld! Monologues](https://boilpoints.com/u/gutfeldmonologues), 2026-10-21, 3:32 to 8:13: **Plays Slotkin's clip on prosecuting enablers**. Plays Slotkin's clip about prosecuting the people who enabled Trump and wanting a deterrence message for young job seekers, then argues the left has long made dissent expensive on crime, trans issues and the border. Mostly a monologue built on the clip. New angle: Slotkin said she wants to look at signature cases and focus on the people who enabled the president, not just the president.
- [The Fox News Rundown](https://boilpoints.com/u/thefoxnewsrundown), 2026-10-22, 0:37 to 2:23: **Recaps Slotkin's remarks and the pushback**. Opens the episode with the Democratic midterm message on subpoenas and hearings, then plays Slotkin's University of Chicago clip and her response that the criticism is manufactured outrage. A retelling of the remarks and the pushback already on the record.
- [The Fox News Rundown](https://boilpoints.com/u/thefoxnewsrundown), 2026-10-22, 2:07 to 6:04: **Argues Slotkin's remarks threaten staffers**. Domenech's commentary on Slotkin's University of Chicago remarks, calling them un-American and arguing she is threatening young Republican staffers with investigation regardless of wrongdoing. It retells the deterrence message and her MSNBC doubling down, staying inside the framing already on the record.
- [The Megyn Kelly Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/themegynkellyshow), 2026-10-22, 3:03 to 8:46: **Walks through the Slotkin escalation**. Walks through the escalation: Slotkin's CNN defense Monday, Trump calling her a lightweight who should be tried from the Oval Office Tuesday, and her X video reply that night. Mike Davis argues the feud helps Republicans two weeks before the midterms. New angle: Trump said from the Oval Office that Slotkin should be tried for her remarks; she answered in an X video.
- [The Dan Bongino Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedanbonginoshow), 2026-10-24, 2:52 to 14:19: **Sets up Slotkin with Raskin and Rice clips**. Opens the midterm argument with a monologue on Democrats campaigning on weaponizing government, playing clips of Raskin and Rice on targeting 'facilitators' and corporations that 'skirted' the law. Slotkin is introduced as the setup for a clip promised later, not as the subject.
- [The Dan Bongino Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedanbonginoshow), 2026-10-24, 15:38 to 27:59: **Uses the clip to explain attack ads**. Uses the Slotkin clip as the case study in a theory of political ads: the destructive ones change a voter's existing picture of who a candidate is. Retells the moderate-to-radical framing and the damage-control line already on the record.
- [The Dan Bongino Show](https://boilpoints.com/u/thedanbonginoshow), 2026-10-24, 41:06 to 44:13: **Frames the remarks as a confession**. Runs the Slotkin remarks together with Clinton, Raskin and Jeffries as one open admission of a delegitimization plot, arguing no investigation is needed because Democrats are confessing. Pure framing and opinion, with no new development in the story.